PEAK6 reviews

Simply put, Peak6 is the absolute worst job decision a new graduate can make coming out of collage. They don't offer anything close to a career path, and in most cases they simply throw their new hires into high stress roles with little training and low pay, asking them to work extremely long hours with no real work/life balance. Employees are micromanaged as if they were children who can't think at all on their own, and they are given the most mindless tasks to do until they end up leaving the company, which almost all new employees do once they realize how terrible their prospects for advancing here are. We also run internship programs, which on the surface seem great but what our leadership conveniently forgets to tell people is that almost no one gets hired from the internship program and because of HR regulations we don't even provide references to those that participate in the internship program and don't get hired. Even better, the actual employees like me have to sit here and watch the interns get fawned over while we - the real employees - are bacially ignored and treated as second class citizens. My advice to new grads and students considering joining this company is to please please please look elsewhere so you don't end up making the same mistake that I and most other people working here made. You have good degrees from great schools, go look for jobs at real companies that actually know how to develop their talent and provide career pathing and fair pay.

I have worked at more investment firms then most employees at PEAK6 and I do not agree with most of the negative comments. management has been working on being more transparent in goals and policies. This may not be the firm for someone who wants to get comfortable with daily routine.I find the work life balance to be fine,especially compared to firms where you must struggle to stay one step ahead of disaster.